Title

Current status of immunology research in India

Authors

Avadhesha Surolia & Ravi Dhar*

Affiliation

National Institute of Immunology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi-110 067, India

Email

ravi@nii.res.in;* Corresponding author

Article Type

Views & Challenges

Date

received July 06, 2007; revised July 09, 2007; accepted July 10, 2007; published online July 10, 2007

Abstract

Rudimentary studies on aspects of biochemistry in India date back to 1927. But, in the field of Immunology, such studies were started by scholars only during early 1970s at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Science and Technology was not an immediate priority until 1961 due to domestic and political conditions in the country. We were then 11 years old since independence and our focus was on economic and social developments. Gradually, improvements were made in the field and now we have 15-20 major groups (small in size) of immunologists in the country, who have made significant contribution in the field during the last 8-10 years. Hence, we anticipate improvements in manpower and infrastructure in the near future.

Keywords

infrastructure; manpower; immunology research; India

Citation

Surolia & Dhar, Bioinformation 2(1): 34-38 (2007)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.